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A Textbook Example of the Christian Right: The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools
Abstract
According to the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, a Christian Right organization, “the Bible was the foundation and blueprint for our Constitution, Declaration of Independence, our educational system, and our entire history until the last 20 to 30 years.” The group claims that over 1,000 American public high schools use its Bible curriculum, which it characterizes as nonsectarian and scholarly. In fact, the various editions of this curriculum have been filled with factual errors, fringe scholarship, and plagiarism. With its promotion of a fundamentalist Protestant understanding of the Bible and a revisionist history of the United States as a distinctively (Protestant) Christian nation, the curriculum appears not to pass legal muster. Its growing use reflects the increasing influence of Christian Americanist ideology as well as the need for greater involvement of religious studies scholars in the issue of religion and public education.
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“These are contentious decisions and evangelicals continually seek ways to circumvent them (see, e.g., Elifson and Hadaway 1985; Green and Guth 1989; Chancey 2007; Ebel 2009).”
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- Authors
- Chancey, M. A.
- Affiliations
- Southern Methodist University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Chancey, M. A.
- ORCID
- Chancey, M. A.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Academy of Religion
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2007-08-04
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 554-581
- ISSN
- 0002-7189 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-4585
- OpenAlex
- W2169610776
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 4.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of the American Academy of Religion (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Religious Education and Schools
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
- Keywords
- Christian Right, religion in public schools, religious fundamentalism, Protestant fundamentalism, historical revisionism, religion and education, religious studies scholars
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